Ian Noe • Botanique
Schedule
Thu Sep 04 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Le Botanique | Brussels, BU
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——— IAN NOE (US)EN/
Noe's latest album, River Fools and Mountain Saints is a familiar and resonant portrait of growing up Appalachian, told with descriptive brushstrokes that evoke some of Americana's master storytellers. The cover photo on Ian Noe’s exceptional new album, River Fools and Mountain Saints, is like a still life image. Noe is sitting on a stool in a cinder block basement surrounded by old jars, bottles and other artifacts of an earnest, hardscrabble life. It’s a fitting choice given that the songs on the record — sparse, unvarnished close-ups of modern America, populated with everyday objects — themselves feel like still life works of art.
One of Noe’s great strengths as a songwriter is the ease in which he establishes mood and sense of place. The album’s first brushstrokes paint a scene on a Kentucky hillside, hard up moonshiners tending a still, with a discarded plow, wagon wheel and old milk cow filling out the frame. Still life art emerged as a reaction to romanticism, a period of mythmaking and idealizing the approved heroes of the past. The new artists preferred realism, and the simple truth of a pitcher or bowl of fruit.
In this follow-up album to his acclaimed debut, Between the Country, Noe zooms in on the rivers, mountains and rich characters of his native eastern Kentucky. The mundane objects he places near them — coffee cans, basketballs, a chair with a coat on it, a cat on a truck, a horsefly, church house vents, a pocket knife, an old box fan — give his songs an additional measure of specificity, context and truth.
NL/
Ian Noe leerde gitaarspelen van zijn opa en vader en stond al vroeg op het podium. Vanaf jonge leeftijd keek hij op naar folk-helden als Bob Dylan, John Prine en Arlo Guthrie. Het is dan ook niet gek dat je hun invloeden terug hoort in zijn eigen akoestische rootsgeluid.
Het debuutalbum 'Between the Country' staat vol met muziek die moet klinken als de sound van Kentucky, het thuisgevoel voor Noe. Aan het album werkte Dave Cobb mee en het resultaat is een plaat die melodramatische thema's beschrijft en waar de prachtige stem van Noe voor gemaakt lijkt te zijn.
——— INFO
• Witloof Bar (Botanique) / Doors 19:30
• Bota'Carte 14,5€ (https://bit.ly/Bota_Carte)
• Ticket 17,5€
• Day of show 20,5€
(costs included)
——— TICKETS
FR: https://botanique.be/fr/concert/ian-noe-2025
NL: https://botanique.be/nl/concert/ian-noe-2025
EN: https://botanique.be/en/concert/ian-noe-2025
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Where is it happening?
Le Botanique, Kruidtuinstraat 236, 1210 Sint-Joost-ten-Node, België, Brussels, BelgiumEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
